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TO ALL WHOM I'l MAY CONCERN:

Be known that I, ALBERT REED, of Mankato, Blue Earth county, Minnesota, have inventedl a new and improved Lath-Frame; and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact .description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this'specifcation. i

The present invention relates to a frame so constructed as to facilitate the nailing and securing of laths to the side of a room, and at regular and equal distances apart, so as to leave spaces or openings of a uniform size or width between the several rows or series of laths. In the accompanying plate of drawings my improved lath-frame is illustrated- I I Figure 1 being a-front view of and elevation of the same.

Figure 2 is a transverse vertical section, taken in theplane of the line x w, iig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. I

A, in the drawings, represents my improved lath-fram e, which consists of two parallel uprights, B, joined together at each end and at the centre by'cross-bars or braces C. The two uprights B upon both sides are priovided with a series of projecting pins or studs, D, at equal aud-regular distances apart from the upper `to the lower end of the frame, with the several pins of both uprights in the same horizontal lines or planes. On these pins the laths are placed one above another, so that if the frame either previously orafterwards be placed against the side wall of a. room, and theresecured by the screw-bolt E, through its centre, with the'laths against the side ofsuch room, by then nailing such laths thereto, they can be all secured at uniform distances apart,

Vso as Ato leave equal and regular spaces or openings between them; the frame, after the laths have been all nailed,

being then unfastened and removed by pulling it away from the wall.

I claim as new, and desire to secure by'Letters Patent- A lath-frame constructed substantially as and for the purpose described.

ALBERT REED.V

Witnesses:

WILLIAM HENRY CLIFFORD, WM. FaANK SEAvEY. 

